So, those feared freedom-fighters really are a bunch of mamma-boys that kill for fun and loot and pillage, all the while keeping up a big appearance of strict religious observance? Color me shocked! Next thing you know, it'll be revealed that these free-range psychopaths live sexually utterly depraved lives as well!

Mark Ratner:namatad: Mark Ratner: I wonder where the Taliban get their "wads of cash" from? Mmmmm, let me think....

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that was the warlordsthe taliban shut down opium in afghanistan, why else did we go in?

I'm not saying you're wrong, and I'm no expert by any means, but I thought that's how they made money? So, where do their wads of cash come from? How are they funded?

Namatad is wrong. https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/press/releases/2008-11-27.html. But, Opium is not their only source of income, just primary.

However this is Pakistan Taliban which is a marginally different group and their source of income is obscured but is most likely from a combination of opium smuggling, arms dealing with Afghanistan Taliban and other services to terrorist groups, and sources indirectly arrived at from the ISI.

Coming on a Bicycle:So, those feared freedom-fighters really are a bunch of mamma-boys that kill for fun and loot and pillage, all the while keeping up a big appearance of strict religious observance? Color me shocked! Next thing you know, it'll be revealed that these free-range psychopaths live sexually utterly depraved lives as well!

Magnus:Mark Ratner: namatad: Mark Ratner: I wonder where the Taliban get their "wads of cash" from? Mmmmm, let me think....

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that was the warlordsthe taliban shut down opium in afghanistan, why else did we go in?

I'm not saying you're wrong, and I'm no expert by any means, but I thought that's how they made money? So, where do their wads of cash come from? How are they funded?

Namatad is wrong. https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/press/releases/2008-11-27.html. But, Opium is not their only source of income, just primary.

However this is Pakistan Taliban which is a marginally different group and their source of income is obscured but is most likely from a combination of opium smuggling, arms dealing with Afghanistan Taliban and other services to terrorist groups, and sources indirectly arrived at from the ISI.

Magnus:Mark Ratner: namatad: Mark Ratner: I wonder where the Taliban get their "wads of cash" from? Mmmmm, let me think....

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that was the warlordsthe taliban shut down opium in afghanistan, why else did we go in?

I'm not saying you're wrong, and I'm no expert by any means, but I thought that's how they made money? So, where do their wads of cash come from? How are they funded?

Namatad is wrong. https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/press/releases/2008-11-27.html. But, Opium is not their only source of income, just primary.

However this is Pakistan Taliban which is a marginally different group and their source of income is obscured but is most likely from a combination of opium smuggling, arms dealing with Afghanistan Taliban and other services to terrorist groups, and sources indirectly arrived at from the ISI.

that was the warlordsthe taliban shut down opium in afghanistan, why else did we go in?

I'm not saying you're wrong, and I'm no expert by any means, but I thought that's how they made money? So, where do their wads of cash come from? How are they funded?

Namatad is wrong. https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/press/releases/2008-11-27.html. But, Opium is not their only source of income, just primary.

However this is Pakistan Taliban which is a marginally different group and their source of income is obscured but is most likely from a combination of opium smuggling, arms dealing with Afghanistan Taliban and other services to terrorist groups, and sources indirectly arrived at from the ISI.

yes no sort of ...http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/20/world/taliban-s-ban-on-poppy-a-suc ce ss-us-aides-say.htmland not sure there is a real difference between afghan and pakistan when it comes to taliban, they cross the border when either side leans on them. In the end, that whole area is just one nightmare.

I know that originally, the taliban shut down opium in afghanistan, taking the money away from the warlords. and the heads.

While Omar did ban poppy cultivation for a short period of time in 2000, it is suspected that it in fact helped the Taliban increase their profits from stored poppy while driving down sources of revenue for the warlords for the short period of time they could enforce the ban. That was in 2000, 14 years ago.

Now, 14 years later....like in the present when the article was written about Pakistan...not so much. They are fully into opium production.

'An Afghan Taliban spokesman told The New York Times: "We don't like to be involved with them (TTP), as we have rejected all affiliation with Pakistani Taliban fighters...We have sympathy for them as Muslims, but beside that, there is nothing else between us."'

But, other than that, you're spot on. And think, I did all of this for you free of charge. Mostly because I used the most cursory of sources...Wikipedia.

that was the warlordsthe taliban shut down opium in afghanistan, why else did we go in?

I'm not saying you're wrong, and I'm no expert by any means, but I thought that's how they made money? So, where do their wads of cash come from? How are they funded?

Namatad is wrong. https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/press/releases/2008-11-27.html. But, Opium is not their only source of income, just primary.

However this is Pakistan Taliban which is a marginally different group and their source of income is obscured but is most likely from a combination of opium smuggling, arms dealing with Afghanistan Taliban and other services to terrorist groups, and sources indirectly arrived at from the ISI.

If opium was their source of income, why are they out of money?No way that I am believing that the afghanistan war was effective!!I am guessing that the warlords are back in control of opium ...

First, this thread is an article about Pakistan Taliban and the level of funding they have access to. Second, you are talking about Afghanistan which is different from Afghanistan. And third, please read your entire article. I'll help out:

"But the Taliban are far from destitute. The ISI in Pakistan continues to fund the Taliban for certain missions, and the departure of American troops has allowed the heroin trade, a valuable form of income for the Taliban, to bounce back."

that was the warlordsthe taliban shut down opium in afghanistan, why else did we go in?

I'm not saying you're wrong, and I'm no expert by any means, but I thought that's how they made money? So, where do their wads of cash come from? How are they funded?

Namatad is wrong. https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/press/releases/2008-11-27.html. But, Opium is not their only source of income, just primary.

However this is Pakistan Taliban which is a marginally different group and their source of income is obscured but is most likely from a combination of opium smuggling, arms dealing with Afghanistan Taliban and other services to terrorist groups, and sources indirectly arrived at from the ISI.

If opium was their source of income, why are they out of money?No way that I am believing that the afghanistan war was effective!!I am guessing that the warlords are back in control of opium ...

First, this thread is an article about Pakistan Taliban and the level of funding they have access to. Second, you are talking about Afghanistan which is different from Afghanistan. And third, please read your entire article. I'll help out:

"But the Taliban are far from destitute. The ISI in Pakistan continues to fund the Taliban for certain missions, and the departure of American troops has allowed the heroin trade, a valuable form of income for the Taliban, to bounce back."

You could get a good trade for soap at out local bazaar at Sharana. Guys would stop by the care package depository (i.e. the chaplain's office) and pick up a bar with a nice fragrance or a bottle of shampoo. You could trade for a DVD movie or something small in value. I knew the trade value of imported perfume before we got there and picked up a bottle of #5 at the DFS in Shannon enroute, but I never had need for it. I bought a lot of rugs with cash. And Hello Kitty, like Chanel #5, is recognized world wide.